The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-02
Trial Of srcCar,pie,s Partners.

| CHICAGO, Aug There tremendous
| clamor by crowds of people this morning for ad-
| mission to the court whore the trial of the
"boodlers" is proceeding. An hour before the
| opening, hundreds of were in lire for ad-
| mission, and with hundreds of others COM
| pletely filed the Railways, thronged the ele-
| vators. and extended far out on the sidewalk.
| The absorbing question was whether any Of the
| eleven defendants would surrender uncondition-
| ally and throw themselves the mercy of the
court. Plainly. the majority of the crowd ex-
pected some such move. but many were of tho
opinion thatit was too late and that the defend
ants only hope now was to fight to the last,
in the belief that accident would fav
them AS the hour for the opening of court ap-
preached the interest grew absolutely fever ish.
At last, above the buzz of many voices, was
heard the sound of many footsteps. The
boodlers were coming in. Without excep tion,
their faces set and white The expef fancy
that more of the defendants would plead guilty
not realized. After Mr.. GrinneIi said
The State rests" Alexander Sullivan. a ttorney
for the defense. Immediately began tfie intro
duction of testimony as to the character of the
men on trial. The first witness was ulfllonaire
Nelson Morris. the packer. He si'Eore that
Mccarthy and Lynn had good reputas ions. Mr..
Morris was not cross examined
After other witnesses had testified to the
defendants good reputation there anne a sur
prise. Commissioner Michael Was serman left
his place among the defendants land took the
witness stand In his behalf Wasserman
was very pale, and his C.embled. He
Denied seratim, all charges of br berry against
himself. and In explaining how lac came to re-
celve certain sums of money. sa id: I'm 1884
the County Democratic Club selec ted
OF the committee to 60 to WasfAi ngton to bring
the convention here. l collectefi money every
where We went down to Wasfi gton and kept
open house to show the people of Washington the
hospitality of Chicago. The ,ult was that we
brought the convention back be re-"
The State did not take the trouble to
examine Mr. Wasserman
After several other witnesse IS had testified to
the good character of the def endauts Commits
sioner Mike Leyden took the stand. He denied
that G. F. Lynn. the inform Ter. ever gave him
$1,000. and denied that he over received a cent
from Bpper.
Commissioner Cells wa1 then called He
denied that Bipper ever him $500 any
other sum to his "knowed ge," but acknowledged
having attended the fautIous meeting in the
janitor's room, but declaf I'd this meering was
called to fix up commis ees and protested he
never received dollar in any way to pro-
mote his influence q ounty commissioner
Buck" Mccarthy vas called to the stand.
He said he attended the meeting in the janitor's
room. 1t was to nix eip the committee Van
Pelt, Leidens, Oliver, tasselman. and Cells were
there, and the object of the meeting was to
reconsider "our previ Gus action" but nothing
was said about percen tages. and the witness said
he was never present when such proposition
made. Mccarthy ga i'd he got dollar
dishonesty from the county.
Judge Shepard, II lis morning overruled the
petition for new trl al in the of Ed ward S.
Mcdonald and w. j. McGariele, charged with
conspiracy, and sen fenced Mcdonald a term
of three years in the penitenriary. The motion
for arrest of jud imont also overrued.
telegram frs'm Sarnia Ont, filed at l
O'Clock this morning, says instructions have
been received froIri States Attorney Grinnell,
of Chicago and th. chief of police arrest Nc
Garigle inc ictment issued Montreal.
The Sarnia chief aIf police has not been ablei to
fed him. and the supposition is that he has left
town.
Judge Lyman Trumbull thus expresses him
self to the legal questions connected with
nCru rIo lofc RAT, fr0v1 no1o Al
not commit murder, arson. or forgery do
not see how he be returned under the treaty
stipulations- 4"
''How does the fact that Canadian subjects
carried McGari gle away a Canadian vessel
affect the question"
Il am hardly prepared to say just now. The
law of nations may apply"
After quotirig Kents Commentaries the
subject in the law of nations he said: lyon see
the question of ers field for the display of rter-
national courtesy, or the contrary, for the
of inclinat ion prejudice"